[2] He grew up in North Brooklin, Maine and attended Cornell University, then transferred after two years to MIT, from where he graduated in 1953 with a bachelor's degree in naval architecture.
[2][3] White worked as a boat builder in Newport News, Virginia, served in the Army, then in 1960, in a former herring-packing plant,[3] established Brooklin Boat Yard, where he became known for simple, classic craft from dinghies to yachts, mostly in wood.
[2] His last design, a 76-foot racing yacht in 1920s style, was realized and further developed by Donald Tofias, and has been named W-Class after White.
[4] He contributed designs to WoodenBoat magazine and in 1988 published Wood, Water & Light: Classic Wooden Boats, with photographs by Benjamin Mendlowitz;[2] in the New York Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt called it a "lovely work [that] includes a dinghy, a runabout, a lobsterboat, a peapod, a sardine carrier, an oceangoing yacht, several speedboats and all manner of sailboats".
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